The reading this week brought me back to the beginning of the semester where we were starting to define what constitutes an essay. According to Cynthia Ozick, ” A genuine essay has no educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use: it is… Continue Reading →
In class we have talked a lot about how the essays that we write need a “narrative anchor”. I would argue that this is even more important when adapting our essays to film. Watching The Voyagers this week I was… Continue Reading →
As I read “Autopsy Report” in conjunction with the videos we watched this week I began to think of how I would adapt “Autopsy Report” to the screen. The description of the bodies in this piece is so descriptive that I… Continue Reading →
When thinking about my own audio essay, I began to stress about how I was going to make my essay into something that people would actually want to listen to. I have always been better to express myself through writing… Continue Reading →
First of all I have to admit that putting my essay in to audio format scares the daylights out of me. I like the idea of putting my written words into an audio format, but I honestly have no idea… Continue Reading →
Susan Orlean writes, in her Introduction to the Best American Essays, 2005 what moves her most in an essay is when the writer turns something over and over in his or her head, and examines it to find a little… Continue Reading →
As I read through the essays for this weeks class it became increasingly evident to me that the point of the essay is to make the reader feel something. An essay does not have to be one hundred percent truthful,… Continue Reading →
Throughout our education we are taught that an “essay” is a five paragraph piece of writing that explores a topic and eventually leads to a conclusion. As students we are taught how to persuade people through our writing and how… Continue Reading →
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